Quote (bitg_pj @ Jul 13 2014 06:19am)
Law is not an instrument of oppression ?
You have a lot of valid points and you are usually great at articulating them .... But before I dump the myriad of ways in which the above statement is wrong I'll give you a chance to retract or clarify it.....
Government is much better than the vacuum left without it ... And it serves or can in some terms serve as a mediation between people who in other terms cannot find common grounds on which to base society .
That said I don't know if I would society current North American government systems are in the peoples best interests .... Apathy has set in , people don't fight for change .... They whine that the government should give it to them ... No one votes .... There's very few people worth voting for running ... The ones that are worth it rarely get any attention because media is privately owned and inflates it's intended targets popularity.
A deep-seated distrust in government due to persecutory delusions and the opportunistic politicians playing into it? Besides being the formative grounds for the manifesto of the deranged gunmen, that fundamental rejection of modern government is the very wrench that has been thrown into government to hamstring it. Tea party republicans couldn't shut down a government if voters, like you, didn't believe the government is a big bad boogeyman coming to brand them all and wrap them up in fema coffins. The very disbelief in an institution is enough to create a sort of self-fulfilling (and self-reinforcing) prophecy of failure. Stop believing in Cyric and he loses his portfolio too. And high priestess Michele Bachmann quotes the same books as her constituents, make no mistake there.
It is of course, nonsense and utter rubbish. You are not being oppressed. You are not living in a gulag, no secret police are going to drag you away in the middle of the night. You do not know what its like to live under tyranny, and you won't in your lifetime.
Worrying about the rough edges and asking for safeguards against misconduct and corruption and keeping the american train, which is running on the tracks just fine, from derailing- thats not only normal, its responsible.
But being a conspiratorial nutjob who thinks the entire tree is poisoned and the best way forward is to tear up the roots and start again- thats the brattish and delusory impotent flailings of pseudointellectuals, entitled beneficiaries of a system they take for granted.